OBITUARIES
Annie Mitchell
Sep 5, 2012
HAW RIVER - Mrs. Annie Laura Williams Mitchell, 84, of Haw River died Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at Hospice and Palliative Care of Alamance-Caswell. Mrs. Mitchell was born on September 29, 1927 in Warren County, NC, daughter of the late Edward Owen and Annie Mae Neal Williams and wife of the late Ernest Vance Mitchell, Jr. She was a...
Edna Ellis
Sep 5, 2012
Orange County HILLSBOROUGH - Mrs. Edna Louise Scearce Ellis, 86, died Wednesday, September 5, 2012, in Durham Regional Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Mary Ellen Neighbours and Leonard L. Scearce. She was a native of Orange County, a graduate of Hillsboro High School and Croft Business School. She retired from Cone Mills and was a life...
Robert Boggs
Sep 5, 2012
Robert (Bob) Newell Boggs died at UNC Hospital, Chapel Hill on Wednesday, September 5, 2012, after a brief illness. He was 81 years old. Bob came to Chapel Hill with his wife, Gwen, in 1990, when he relocated to the area from Massachusetts as the Southern Regional Editor for Design News Magazine. He retired from publishing in 1995, and...
Harry Davis
Sep 1, 2012
Walker's Funeral Home 204 N. Churton Street P. O. Box 506 Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 919-732-2121 OBITUARY DEPARTMENT ORANGE COUNTY HILLSBOROUGH - Harry Franklin Davis passed away September 1, 2012 at home after a courageous fight with cancer. Harry was born February 3, 1942 in Canton, Ohio, preceded in death by his parents Harold Fredrick Davis and Virginia Wood...
Jacqueline Moore
Sep 1, 2012
EFLAND - Mrs. Jacqueline "Jackie" Paulson (Koonce) Moore, 81, of Efland, died Saturday, September 1, 2012 at the Hospice Home of Alamance. Mrs. Moore was born on January 22, 1931 in New York, She was the daughter of the late John W. and Alice Stewart Paulson; and wife of the late James Henry Moore. She was retired from GoldToe,...
Marie Hall
Aug 30, 2012
Dr. Marie M. Hall Obituary Marie M. Hall, Ph. D. died in Durham, North Carolina on August 30. She was 95. She had been a resident of The Cedars in Chapel Hill, N. C. since 2007.Dr. Hall was born in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College and The New School of Social Research in New York. In...
Jo Savery
Aug 25, 2012
Jo Lynn Howell Savery April 11, 1941 - August 25, 2012 Jo Lynn Howell Savery, of Chapel Hill, died peacefully at UNC Hospitals. A graduate of Mary Washington College, Jo Lynn also did graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in biology and computer science. After raising her three children in Chapel Hill with husband...
Heather Palleschi
Aug 23, 2012
Arrangements by Massapequa Funeral Home, Inc. 1050 Park Blvd Massapequa Park, NY 11762 516-798-2500
John Jones
Aug 22, 2012
CHAPEL HILL Mr. John Daniel Jones, Jr., age 91, passed away at his home in Chapel Hill on August 22, 2012. John was the son of the late John D. Jones, Sr. and Annie Griffin Jones of Red Oak, NC. He moved to Chapel Hill from Red Oak in1946 with his wife Barbara Neville of Chapel Hill. John owned...
Vicki Compton
Aug 19, 2012
Vicki Ann Rhew Compton passed away peacefully after a courageous fight with cancer on Sunday, August 19, 2012. Born November 19, 1946, she was the only daughter of the late Al Victor Rhew and late Mary Tilley Rhew of Rougemont. She spent her teen years being raised by her "granddaddy" the late James Cyrus Tilley. One of the great...
Christine Beeston
Aug 16, 2012
Christine Hourihan Beeston, 94, of Chapel Hill, passed away on August 16, 2012 at her home. She was born on December 18, 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky to Austin Hourihan and Aline Roederer Hourihan. Christine earned an RN at Nazareth School of Nursing at St. Josephs Infirmary in Louisville, and in 1943, entered the Army as a commissioned 2nd Lieutenant...
David Labby
Aug 14, 2012
HILLSBOROUGH- Mr. David Eugene Labby, Sr., 68, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 in Durham. Mr. Labby was born on February 8, 1944 in Berlin, NH to the late Joseph and Hattie Demers Labby. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Kenneth and Clarence Labby. He is survived by his wife: Linda Wyman Labby of the home;...
Colton Mangum
Aug 13, 2012
Orange County HILLSBOROUGH - Master Colton Wade Mangum, 9 weeks, died Monday, August 13, in Duke Hospital. Surviving are his mother, Kristian Mangum, Hillsborough, his father, Frank Dement, his brother, Shayne Mangum, his maternal grandparents, Gregg and Brenda Mangum, and paternal grandparents, Ronnie and Wendy Baker. Visitation will be 6:30-8:30 PM Tuesday in Walker's Funeral Home. A private burial...
Billy Merritt
Aug 11, 2012
Pittsboro Mr. Billy C. Merritt 72, died on Saturday, August 11, 2012 at his home. He is survived by his wife Betty Jean, grandsons, Shawn and wife Jessica, Christopher Cox and one great grandson, Colton Cox all of Sanford, NC. Funeral sevices will be held Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at Walker's Funeral Home Chapel, 120 W. Franklin St. Chapel...
Tiffany Shen
Aug 11, 2012
Tiffany Ruiduan Shen July 26, 2002 - August 11, 2012 Chapel Hill, NC Tiffany Shen, 10, suffered from a lung failure caused by pneumonia and passed away peacefully on her parents' arms on August 11, 2012 in UNC hospital, Chapel Hill, NC. Tiffany's life would seem too short to many, but those who were touched by her understood how...
Melba Walker
Aug 7, 2012
ORANGE COUNTY Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough 919-732-2121 HILLSBOROUGH - Mrs. Melba Ethel Hawkins Walker, 90, died Tuesday, August 7, 2012. She was a native of Orange County and a graduate of Aycock High School. She retired from Orange County School Food Service after 23 years. She was a member of New Sharon United Methodist Church where she sang...
